50 THE USE BOOK. 



TOWN SITES. 



Lands in National jForests embraced in valid town- 

 site settlements jnade before the creation^^o^tlifij^orest 

 may, unless abandoned, be entered and patented under 

 the town-site laws, without regard to the period which 

 has elapsed after their settlement or after the establish- 

 ment of the Forest, and without anyjnecessity to elimi- 

 nate the town-site area from the Forest. 



Where it is. desired to originate and establish a town 

 site on lands within a National Forest, if a petition ad- 

 dressed to the Forester and an investigation made under 

 his direction show that it is necessary and advisable to 

 use such lands for town-site purposes, an Execu- 

 _{ive order to exclude the land may be issued, in which 

 case provision will be made for its _Qntry under the 

 town-site laws and the regulations of thd Department of 



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me v lnterior. 



STATE LANDS. 



In general, grants to States and Territories for school 

 purposes apply to sections 16 and 36 (nonmineral)7""Tf 

 these sections were id^entified^ 



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were withdrawn for National^ Forest purposes. If 

 the wii"h"(:lravvHl"^rece3^_^uch identificaJtion, the State 

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"or Territory^ losejL its right_to these sections, and may- 

 select unreserved nomm^raJ^ajids^i^J^ieu^ of them. 

 "(Appendix, p. ^'V8T) IiTthe States of North Dakota, 

 South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho," ami 

 ^gWyoming, however, nonmineral sectionsJiLflT^ ^ (and 4 

 in Utah 2, 16, 32, and 36) belong_to_the Statajzehenever 

 they are identified by survey, not^vithst_anding their 



